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...seems pretty certain he can read, but can Johnny write? Fans of Johnny Carson will find out this week when the Tonight Show's host returns to the air with monologues he has written himself. The strike by the Writers Guild has idled the staff of eight that normally produces Carson's jokes, and only reruns of the talk show have appeared since March 8. Though the strike goes on, Carson said he will write his own material because he is determined to get the show back into production and keep the rest of his employees from losing their paychecks...
...strikers hailed from Hollywood, not Pittsburgh, so they sported sunglasses and peach-colored sweaters instead of hard hats and work boots. But the walkout by the 9,000 members of the Writers Guild of America (W.G.A.), now in its eighth week, is threatening to become as disruptive and gritty as any other industrial deadlock. When representatives for the writers and producers sat down with a federal mediator last week to resume their talks, the meeting broke up after only 20 minutes. Said Herb Steinberg, spokesman for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers: "The union came in with nothing...
...Last week they carried giant-size pencils and a banner in front of the Manhattan offices of Orion and Columbia Pictures. Line crossing is taboo. Says a writer: "This is a company town, and if word gets out that someone's a scab, they'd be barred from the guild for life...
Five replicas of medieval Florentine guild flags were stolen from the Mather House dining hall late Friday night, the president of the house committee, said yesterday...
...flags, which had hung from the ceiling of the dining hall, were discovered missing Saturday morning, said House Committee President Jimmy W. Lew '89. Vandals apparently tore down the flags, broke two soda machines, and dented a refrigerator in the kitchen. Sixteen other guild flags in the hall remained intact...